A lot of Select All That Apply questions?

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Okay, okay, okay! Let me get this straight, is it true if you get a lot of select all that apply questions on the nclex that means you're passing? Because I been hearing a lot of people say it's a good sign. When I think about it, I have a friend who only got 4 sata questions and she failed. Then I got another friend who got about 10 she passed. Is this myth true? How many of you failed the Nclex and only gotten a few sata questions? ? How many passed and gotten a lot of sata questions? ?Or did you fail and still get a lot of sata questions? Or who passed and only gotten a few? Let's take a poll on this one. Write back with your responds.

Specializes in informatics.

I had 18 SATA in 75 questions and passed.

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I just took the NCLEX and I had all pharmacology and like 50 sata questions with alot of risk infection thrown in I am at a loss as to how I did. We all worry and stress. I hope you passed the test if not take it again because you will be fine. It is all about timing.

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That many sata, I don't think that's fair. What number did it stop at? Did you do pvt?

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From what I understand, if you have SATA questions and are getting them wrong (or pharm, or other alternate questions ) they keep giving you more until you get them right. My first ? was a SATA! I only had 2 for the entire 75 questions. I used a book to help me prepare--not sure of the title but it was the prioritation, delegation and assessment book (the title is something like that). That helped a LOT and all the recent grads had recommended that to me. Good luck next time. You can do it! I took the night before my exam and had a nice dinner and drink with a friend and just chilled. No stress and didn't think about it. Somewhere there is something (not much help I know) that says that the questions start easy and if you get them right, they get progressively harder until you are getting every other one wrong. So everyone feels like they are getting a lot wrong but you need to be on the line that you are at a difficult enough level to predict success.

I found this link to a post on allnurses
https://allnurses.com/waiting-nclex-results-read-first-t129072/

Hope that helps.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

I had a bunch of SATA questions & passed w/ 75 questions. I would guesstimate that every 2nd or 3rd question was SATA. The idea is that when you don't get a question correct, the question get easier & easier to see where your level of knowledge stands. SATA questions are just one type of difficult question.

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kcksk said:
From what I understand, if you have SATA questions and are getting them wrong (or pharm, or other alternate quesitons ) they keep giving you more until you get them right. My first ? was a SATA! I only had 2 for the entire 75 questions. I used a book to help me prepare--not sure of the title but it was the prioritation, delegation and assessment book (the title is something like that). That helped a LOT and all the recent grads had recommended that to me. Good luck next time. You can do it! I took the night before my exam and had a nice dinner and drink with a friend and just chilled. No stress and didn't think about it. Somewhere there is something (not much help I know) that says that the questions start easy and if you get them right, they get progressively harder until you are getting every other one wrong. So everyone feels like they are getting a lot wrong but you need to be on the line that you are at a difficult enough level to predict success.

I found this link to a post on allnurses
https://allnurses.com/waiting-nclex-results-read-first-t129072/

Hope that helps.

Lacharity is the book, ha, ha, I was practicing all day today. This is the last 5 day study any tips?

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You have to prepare to fight with test! You have to be ready for any type of questions. Management, prioritisation, pharmac..

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I passed with 75q's and did not have a ton of SATA, maybe 10ish though I really wasn't counting. I had a few very easy questions that I could not believe were on the test. I really think it is totally random.

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I just took my test on 4/29/11 and had all 265 questions..out of all of those I had 36 SATA questions!! I kept track on my little dry erase board they gave me...I couldn't believe how many SATA I kept getting! I am not sure if that is a good sign or a bad sign. I have tried the pearson vue trick 3 times and I keep getting the good pop up!!

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dont believe the myth.....its kinda hard to know who is passing or not..my exam stoppped @ 75 and I only had two sata questions....just go and answer each question as an individual one....

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That myth is not true. I had like 15 SATA's or more on my first try and I failed. I still had a lot of SATA's on my 2nd try and I passed. NCLEX is random.

But I do suggest Lippincott's NCLEX-RN Alternate Format Questions- it helped me a lot with my SATA's. Goodluck! :D

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Hopefully congradulations are in order! The thing I have found is it is one challenge after another. The good pop up worked for me but nothing is ever 100%. Look on the licensing agency of your state to see if you passed that is how I found out I passed I never looked at the testing center results. These come up pretty fast I found out the same day I took the test. Pass school then the nclex then orientate to a job.

Melissa

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